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Word: tunefully (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matter, the scene in which about a dozen of the chorus gambol in the costumes of a generation or so age, (we aren't quite suro how many generations), and some of the "boys" pose in an old-time daguerreotype was second to none we have ever seen. That tune, "The Flannel Petticoat Girl" emphasized the absurdity of the disguises somehow, with the most wonderfully rollicking rhythm, while those caricatures paraded back and forth, encore after encore...

Author: By A. C. B., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 11/7/1923 | See Source »

Helium is non-inflammable and lessens the risk of airship operation. But it costs $100 per 1,000 cubic feet and-in spite of the goldbeater's skin covering the cotton bags-it leaks out to the tune of several hundred dollars a day. The British Air Secretary now announces a different scheme, whereby cheap hydrogen will be surrounded with a shell of inert gas, minimizing fire risk at a tenth of the cost of helium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Cheaper Protection | 11/5/1923 | See Source »

...Island hotel. To and from the hotel I was wont to stop at a little fruit stand owned by a Greek, who began every sentence with ' Yess.' The jingle of his idiom haunted me and my friend Cohn. Finally I wrote this verse and Cohn fitted it with a tune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whose Phrase? | 8/27/1923 | See Source »

...ceremony was simple and impressive. The French Tricolor, at Marshal Foch's command, was hauled down to the call of the Marseillaise, played by French bugles and a Marine Band from the U. S. S. Pittsburgh. After this the Stars and Stripes were run up to the tune of the Star-Spangled Banner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Second Gettysburg | 7/30/1923 | See Source »

...other diversions, which might be listened to in fine reproduction by anyone owning a radio set. Thousands and thousands bought sets, and the great radio fad was under way. It increased to wonderful proportions. Today newspapers run special radio supplements, and throughout the country countless numbers of people " tune in" every evening, and pick up what diverting sounds they can through the air. The programs broadcast were at first very fine, especially in the way of music. The radio transmits tone with a great fidelity, and important singers and instrumentalists were glad to perform for the new wonder. Philosophers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Radio Concerts | 7/30/1923 | See Source »

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